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  • Productivity Reporting

    The Telerik Report Designer: More Powerful Than Ever Webinar

    Slides, Source Code and Video to the "The Telerik Report Designer: More Powerful Than Ever" Webinar Now Available We want to thank you all for attending the Telerik Reporting Webinar. As promised, all of the materials are now available for you to download and explore on your own. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment below. We also suggest that you download Telerik Reporting and the new standalone Report Designer if you haven’t already done so. For Those Who Couldn’t Attend, What is the Telerik Reporting? Telerik Reporting is a lightweight reporting solution for all .NET cloud, web, and...
    October 30, 2012 7 min read
  • Productivity

    4 Steps to Profile Your Apps

    JustTrace makes profiling your application easy. Just follow these four steps and you will soon be on your way to identifying and removing memory leaks and performance issues. Keep in mind, profiling is best done regularly so you can detect unusual behavior early and avoid problems before they manifest. Follow these four steps to profile your applications with JustTrace: Assess, Acquire, Analyze, and Act.  Step 1: Assess Determine what kind of issue you have. Is your application’s memory continuously growing while running? You have a memory leak. Do some parts of your application take too long to run? You have a performance...
    October 11, 2012 4 min read
  • Productivity

    Why Mocking Matters

    How does mocking benefit me?  That’s a question I hear a lot as I travel around the world giving talks.  So before we dive into how to use a mocking tool like JustMock, let’s discuss why this is important and the benefit that mocking provides over other techniques like Fakes. In my post on Why SOLID Matters, we refactored a small piece of code to be more SOLID.  Granted, it was a simplistic example, but good for illustrating several key points on SOLID.  We will continue using the same code to discuss the benefits of Mocking.  As a refresher, we ended...
    October 10, 2012 10 min read
  • Release

    Get your Learn on With Telerik 2012 Q3 Webinar Week

    Webinar week is coming!  From October 22 to October 26, we will be hosting nine webinars showing off the best of what’s new, including an incredible level of support for Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8.  In addition to seeing all of the cool new features in Telerik’s ever expanding suite of products, you can have a chance to win valuable prizes, including DevCraft Ultimate licenses.  Please visit this link to register: http://www.telerik.com/developer-productivity-tools/whats-new.aspx I will personally be involved in three of the webinars, on Telerik Reporting, the Just suite of products, and support for Windows8 development. The Telerik Report Designer: More Powerful...
    October 09, 2012 2 min read
  • Release

    Load on Demand and Drill Down, Two New Features to Make Your ASP.NET AJAX OrgChart More Interactive

    The organizational chart is one of the newest controls in Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX suite and because of this we know how important it is not only to improve existing functionalities but to add new ones regularly. With Q2 2012 Telerik’s ASP.NET OrgChart control features’ collection was extended once again. I am happy to announce that two major capabilities were introduced which significantly improve the OrgChart’s performance and usability. Load on Demand Drill Down Load on Demand With Q1 2012 Node and Group collapsing came out. Load on demand continues the sequence in a logical way. Keeping the idea of different type of collapsing (Nodes/Groups), the...
    July 04, 2012 2 min read